The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 104

This was delightful, the lad thought; he could go even faster now than when he was a hare, and the dogs could not come after him here.

Who acts: This, lad, dogs · What happens: be, think, go, not come · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, lad, dogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 delightful	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 delightful	cop
3	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lad	det
6	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thought	nsubj
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 delightful	parataxis
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thought	ccomp
12	even	even	ADV	_	13 faster	advmod
13	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 go	advmod
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 go	advmod
15	than	than	ADP	_	20 hare	case
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 hare	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hare	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hare	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hare	det
20	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 now	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 come	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 come	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dogs	det
24	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 come	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 come	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 come	advmod
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	conj
28	after	after	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 come	obl
30	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 come	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 delightful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	This			delightful property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	the lad				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	go	could	lad		now	fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	lad			than a hare	tree rules
5	not come	could	the dogs	here	after lad		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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